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The Nobel Peace Prize has just been awarded to Navi Pillay who is not, like last year’s laureate, pleading for the world’s largest military to attack her country. Nor is she, in the manner of various past laureates, waging war. Nor is she, like various past recipients, an admirable humanitarian working in a field unrelated to war. In fact, Navi Pillay has long been recognized as advancing the cause of peace. In 2025 she was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize …

The World Health Organization declared that the Covid emergency ended in mid-2023. Since then, the 500 Standard and Poor’s companies (the benchmarks of US capitalism) have enjoyed a steady and significant increase in earnings growth. This remarkable growth persisted quarter after quarter, culminating in “more than 440 S&P 500 companies reporting second-quarter earnings so far [and] 86% have beaten analysts’ estimates, according to FactSet data” as reported in the Wall Street Journal. The WSJ further adds: “Companies are reporting earnings that are around 29% higher than those estimates, on track …

Here is what Aljazeera told the world on — October 7, 2026 — while the Western world and its media largely kept silent.

We see it as our duty to help spread these facts about the overkill in response to Hamas’ attack on Israel. And remember that the conflict did not start there and then as many will have us believe.

It’s painful reading. Let us send our gratitude to the 300 journalists and media people who lost their lives doing their job. Someone did not want …

The country’s airspace is now “a theater for military operations,” the Yemeni militants have warned….

“You can talk about your Julie and your Peggy Sue
You can keep your Miss Molly and your Mary Lou
When it comes to the Chicken or doin’ the Bop
I got a gal they call the Queen of the Hop”

When I started out on my socialist path 57 years ago, I had high expectations about the kind of people socialists were. I read about the anarchists in Spain and how joyful they were. You can see this in many of the pictures of …

Rare rare rare, that a local rag, weekly, would run my piece. Three years of the current iteration of genocide. Of course, those of us who have been railing against the death machines — war profiteers, economic hitmen, ag-chemical-mining-oil thugs, the Kosher Nostra, the endless pipeline of infantilized and McDonaldized crap imbuing everything about Western Culture — knew this Orwellian day was on the horizon.

Here, the piece, unadulturated:
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Deaf ears. Media malpractice. A public hoodwinked by the machinations of the Jewish State of Israel’s lobby that make runaway slave catchers’ attack dogs seem like poodles.

It …

Canada’s ties to Duvalier corruption should inform public reaction to Ottawa’s gang suppression force in Haiti.

Last week Radio Canada’s flagship investigative program Enquête revealed that provincial Liberal Party candidate Michel Leblanc was the main beneficiary of an $800,000 payment made to his lawyer father by a former finance minister during the Jean-Claude Duvalier dictatorship. In “Des fonds liés à la dictature de Duvalier aboutissent à Chambly”, the public broadcaster traced funds former minister Frantz Merceron probably stole, to a Caisse Desjardins trust account set up for Leblanc.

This is one of several examples of Canadians/institutions implicated in Duvalierist …

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported on 7 October 2026: “Three years on from the Hamas-led attacks on Israel, which killed around 1,200 people and resulted in 251 being taken hostage… More than 74,000 Palestinians, many of them civilians, have been killed”. Corrections:

(1) The International Law-permitted but disastrous “attacks” by illegally-subjugated people came from the 6 million Occupied Palestinian Subjects of Apartheid Israel, specifically from among the 2.4 million Gazan Subjects imprisoned  in the blockaded and bombed Gaza Concentration Camp. In 2020 the under-5 infant deaths totalled 512 (Israel proper) and 2,743 (Occupied Palestinians). Israel was made aware of the …

Today’s date, 10/7, will remain in the public narrative in much the same way that we no longer need to explain what 9/11 means. Both are associated with human casualties, not only those resulting directly from the attacks that took place on those days, but also from what happened before and after them. Neither date represents an accidental tragedy; both were the consequence of social and political developments unfolding over a much longer period.

In that sense, the backdrop to 10/7 is the much longer history of the so-called Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That act was the product of decades of occupation of …

We live closer in time to the T. Rex than the T. Rex lived to the Stegosaurus.

Certain facts you see online make you immediately think, “Eh, that’s bullshit. Fake news. Stupid lying memes.” …And then sometimes you find out they’re true. Like that T. Rex fact.

You might have seen the meme going around that Iranians pay pennies per gallon for gasoline. It’s actually true (but not for the reason you might think). Meanwhile, the oil-company-with-an-army called the United States touts exorbitant gas prices that are …

“Every few generations, there comes a leader who bends the arc of history. Historians will write that about Bernie Sanders.”

— Ro Khanna

Yesterday I happened to catch a brief clip of Ro Khanna speaking in California, introducing Bernie Sanders. Khanna spoke about a “new progressive era” in the United States and explicitly named Bernie Sanders as someone who was essential for that vision to be realized because of the inspiration and leadership he has provided for tens of millions of us over the last ten years. Sanders is currently traveling throughout California …

Last week, Andy Burnham, the new Labor leader and UK Prime Minister, addressed the Labor Party conference in Liverpool:

‘All Together Now. That’s my rallying call to the country today. When we pull as one, there is nothing we can’t do.

‘Today we draw a line on a decade of division. We stop doomscrolling on posts running Britain down. And we put the country on a new path.’

Burnham continued:

‘Britain with belief again. People with hope again.’

It was notable that he used …

In his second term, US President Donald Trump has followed the path of past executive tribunes of the American imperium, seeking land and resources like a kleptomaniacal pincher. This has been bracing, not least for a foreign policy establishment inured to the hypocrisies of virtue concealed in the international order of rules and protocols. Spot the international rule and break it.

Neither ally nor adversary has been spared Trump’s scorching petulance. Thuggish language has been forthcoming for Canada just as it was for Venezuela, whose leader, Nicolás Maduro, was abducted, along with his wife, on fantastic charges related to narcotics …

Remarks in Baltimore on October 3, 2026, at an event with War Is Still A Lie

Thank you to Ronda Cooperstein and the local chapter of World BEYOND War for setting up this event.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJtdn_0O0Go

I recently read a big stack of books on the decline and elimination of dueling. There were thousands of factors, many of them beyond anyone’s easy control, but key among them was cultural change, was bringing people to find greater humiliation in dueling than in not dueling, greater …

The trend was already spreading through the corridors of power, but the world’s most powerful defense department has fallen hardest for artificial intelligence at virtually every level of its operations. Even before the Pentagon’s intoxicating pursuit of artificial intelligence was announced, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was already running simulated aerial combat trials between AI agents and seasoned pilots.

In December 2025, the US Department of Defense (DOD) revealed plans for a rapid, extensive release of the generative AI GenAI.mil platform, which uses advanced models intended for over 3 million military personnel, civilian employees, and contractors. Google Cloud’s …